OK, gang, maybe this will be of interest to some- I get this from Musicians Friend. Let me know if you like it, if not, I'll let it die.
I just find some of this to be interesting stuff, like gee, I always wondered where Keith Richards got the inspiration for that tune....so complex Seriously, it is memorable; made some major bucks for the Stones.

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Mounties Get Their Jimi ... Madonna's Bustier Pinched ... Flying Scotsman
This is the week that was in matters musical...

1956, for the first time ever, five crossover records appear in both the Pop and Rhythm & Blues Top Ten Billboard charts: Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel," Carl Perkins' "Blue Suede Shoes," Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally," the Platters' "Magic Touch," and "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" by Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers ... the Perkins and Presley songs also make it into the Country and Western Top Ten...

1965, while toying with a newly-acquired fuzz box in a Florida hotel room, Keith Richards comes up with the riff that will later become the hook in "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"...

1969, Canadian Mounted Police arrest Jimi Hendrix at Toronto airport for possession of narcotics...

1970, four students are gunned down and 11 are wounded by National Guard troops in a campus demonstration protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Ohio ... this inspires Neil Young to compose and release the song "Ohio" within days of the shootings...

1972, Stone the Crow guitarist Les Harvey is fatally electrocuted on stage in Swansea, Wales, when he touches a hot mic and is thrown into the air...

1973, Paul Simon starts his first solo tour following his divorce from Art Garfunkel...

1974, the #1 Billboard Pop Hit is "Loco-Motion" by Grand Funk Railroad ... the original 1962 version by Little Eva had also hit the top of the pops ... the song will hit pay dirt one more time when Kylie Minogue rides it to #3 in 1988...

1976, Bruce Springsteen is given the bum's rush by security guards when he's caught trying to scale the fence at Graceland...

1984, Mick Fleetwood files for bankruptcy...

1992, during the rioting and looting in Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdict, Madonna's bustier is stolen from Frederick's of Hollywood...

1999, at a Des Moines, Iowa, show, shock-rocker Marilyn Manson stalks off the stage upon noticing that someone has slapped a big yellow smiley face sticker on one of his props ... in the resulting melee, 23 are arrested ... that same week a study by Clinton administration drug enforcement officials reports that 27% of the most popular records of 1996-1997 "contained a clear reference to either alcohol or illicit drugs" ... meanwhile Motley Crue announces that drummer Tommy Lee has quit the band to devote more time to his new band and to his family now that he has reconciled with Pamela Anderson Lee ... the drummer's new band is called Methods of Mayhem...

2000, a fire destroys James Brown's offices in Augusta, Georgia ... a priceless collection of memorabilia from the singer's 40-year career is lost in the blaze ... a month later Brown's bodyguard, Richard Glenn, is charged with arson ... it is alleged that he set the fire to cover up the theft of a $75,000 check his employer had received from Pepsi in an endorsement deal ... writer Jimmy McDonough files a suit against Neil Young for $1.8 million charging the singer with blocking publication of an exhaustive biography written by McDonough with Young's assistance and permission ... the 786-page book, Shakey, which often casts an unflattering light on Young, is finally published in 2002...

2003, 15 months after its original release, Nora Jones's debut album, Come Away With Me, rides the top of the pop chart for the second time...

and that was the week that was.

Cool thread.
Sorry, but I couldn't help hearing the voice of Casey Kasem.

HA! Hadn't thought about him in years.....a very distinct voice, and always with the top ten or whatever...haven't listened to that in years either, is it still on??
Anyway, thanks- I always like these little factoids, shines a bit of a different light on some artists. (Like Mick Fleetwood...84 must not have been a good year for him- FM's Tango must not have done that well, and after Rumours, Tusk, and Live1980, his money must have run out. Hard for us peons to understand, I guess.)
And it's not usually political, had enough of that lately.
Later- feel free to dig up your own stuff and post it here, like why mullets were so popular....
Tony

What was shaking in the music world this week in history.........

1926, Miles Davis is born in Alton, Illinois ...
1954, Robert Zimmerman, to be better known later as Bob Dylan, celebrates his bar mitzvah...
1958, upon arrival in London for a British tour, Jerry Lee Lewis announces his marriage to 14-year-old cousin Myra ... the resulting uproar causes all but three of the dates on the 37-stop schedule to be canceled ....
1965, Helena, Arkansas, the masterful blues singer and harp player Sonny Boy Williamson II dies in obscurity.... upon returning to the anonymity and racism of his life in the deep South, Williamson entered a period of profound depression culminating in his death...
1966, when Keith Moon and John Entwistle fail to show for a Who gig, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey play a set with the opening act's drummer and bassist ... when the errant rhythm section finally shows, Townshend whacks Moon over the head with his guitar causing the drummer to quit the band ... he's back a week later...
1967, the BBC bans the Beatles' "A Day in the Life" because of explicit drug references...
1973, Edgar Winter's single "Frankenstein" reigns supreme on the Billboard pop chart ... the song is among the first hits to prominently feature an Arp 2600 synthesizer...
1976, Keith Richards has a run-in with a highway divider north of London while piloting his Bentley ... he is later charged with possession of pot and coke...
1979, Elton John performs a concert in Leningrad and becomes the first Western solo pop star to tour the Soviet Union...
1981, Bob Marley is buried in St. Ann's, Jamaica, with full state honors...
1982, the Central London chapter of the British Musician's Union attempts to ban the use of rhythm machines and synthesizers at all recording sessions and live gigs ... the resolution is defeated...
1997, the R.O.A.R. tour featuring Iggy Pop, Sponge, and Reverend Horton Heat roars into Toronto, Canada, then limps out of town after drawing fewer than 100 people to the 16,000-seat Kingswood Music Theatre...
1999, over 20 oldies acts including Jan & Dean, Pat Boone, and Freddy Fender sue record label K-Tel for breach of contract and non-payment of royalties...

Ahhh, K-tel records.
Where else can you get 20 top 40 singles for $8, and have nearly all the songs snipped to under 3 minutes?